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Twenty-two-year-old Ben Shelton remains the lone Black American male heading into the final week of competition at the 2025 Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

This is the story of a young man from the streets of Dorchester named John “Doomsday” Howard, who rose from the hardscrabble streets of his community to gain an international name for himself in the field of mixed martial arts.

This quiet gentleman, who has gained my undying admiration for his community service and love for teaching young people how to play basketball the right way, teaching them to live by his motto, “Respect the Game”, is a true hero to many.

By the time the final buzzer had sounded on game seven of this year’s NBA Finals, crowning the Oklahoma City Thunder as the new kings of the National Basketball Association, the Celtics had already made major personnel changes from their 2023-24 title team.

The Oklahoma City Thunder concluded their run to their first National Basketball Association title in franchise history at home with a 103-91 triumph over the Indiana Pacers. This was the seventh and final game of this year’s league playoffs.

Cathy Mayo and her son Delmace Mayo share a unique life/love experience. The beginning of their tale took place when Cathy journeyed to Port-au-Princee, Haiti, to perform volunteer work in 2006. On her third journey to the island in 2008, she met a two-month-old baby named Delmace at the Wings of Hope Orphanage in Las Hobas.

The Oklahoma City Thunder, the youngest team to reach the NBA Finals in 48 years, got 71 points from their prolific backcourt combination of Jalen Williams, who had a playoff career-high 40 points, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored 31 points and had 10 assists and four blocked shots, the first player in NBA Finals history with a 30-10-4 game, to go along with stifling team defense to turn back the Indiana Pacers 120-109 in game five of the NBA Finals. The win moved the home team to a 3-2 advantage in the best-of-seven series. 

As strange as this may seem, the Boston Red Sox, fresh off a three-game weekend sweep of the New York Yankees, made bigger headlines with the announcement of the trade of three-time All-Star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants for multiple players

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers are tied at one game apiece following the first two games of this year’s NBA Finals.

Coco Gauff stepped into the tennis history books with her 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Aryna Sabalenka in the women’s final of the 2025 French Open Tennis Championship.

Ohtani versus Judge is the most significant debate in Major League Baseball and one of the most discussed in all sports. Who would you like, who would you take? The two transcendent stars of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are that big.

The MIAA divisional track and field competition took place at Merrimack College (Division 2), Westfield State (Division 3), and Tufts University (Division 6) this past weekend.